22 - 27 August 2023
Nikkilä Temple, Finland
Return of the Priestess
Return of the Priestess
mysteries of matter
Part TWO of The Activation Series | Europe 2023
She is the daughter of Eros & Thanatos. Her dance is a cosmic prayer to the stars and the soil. She is a woman but much more so, she is a frequency. Her roaring is primal, she is a savage creature of the underworld. Her essence is cosmic, she is an ancient oracle of the stars. She hums between the two pillars of creation, her womb is the void through which everything dissolves back into Truth. Mother of Beauty. Midwife of the Soul.
Return of the Priestess: the journey of un-becoming
There is a reality that has no words. It speaks in sounds, colours and sensations. It whispers through the knowing of your bones, through the sweetness of your sweat and the ripeness of your breasts.
It calls you into exquisite devotion and ecstatic prayer.
"The body is a Doorway", said Sophie Strand.
What happens when we choose to step through that doorway, together? What is waiting on the other side?
There is a reality that has no words. It speaks in sounds, colours and sensations. It whispers through the knowing of your bones, through the sweetness of your sweat and the ripeness of your breasts.
It calls you into exquisite devotion and ecstatic prayer.
"The body is a Doorway", said Sophie Strand.
What happens when we choose to step through that doorway, together? What is waiting on the other side?
©Jaqueline Louan
We don’t teach you how to be embodied.
We don’t show you how to regulate your nervous system.
We don’t tell you how to be woman in that one 'right' way.
We want you to dissolve into time-space with us.
We ask you to get radically naked with us, To strip bare of your woman-human-suit and become HER with us.
ARE YOU READY?
ARE YOU READY?
©Jaqueline Louan
MYSTERIES OF MATTER
Return to the soil.
Return to the moss.
Return to the endless wisdom that lives in the fertile dark beneath the crust of the earth.
Return to the wind.
Return to the stars.
Return to the ever unfolding dance of creation that pulses as your menstrual blood.
MYSTERIES OF MATTER
Return to the soil.
Return to the moss.
Return to the endless wisdom that lives in the fertile dark beneath the crust of the earth.
Return to the wind.
Return to the stars.
Return to the ever unfolding dance of creation that pulses as your menstrual blood.
RETURN TO THE BODY.
Your body, yes.
The earth body, yes.
But more so,
THE body.
The one great body.
Some call her Goddess,
some call her Feminine,
some call her Mother,
we call her Matter.
Join this 6-day EMBODIED QUEST into the mysteries of HER.
RETURN TO THE BODY.
Your body, yes.
The earth body, yes.
But more so,
THE body.
The one great body.
Some call her Goddess,
some call her Feminine,
some call her Mother,
we call her Matter.
Join this 6-day EMBODIED QUEST into the mysteries of HER.
©Jaqueline Louan
“It is the aim of ritual to experience the melting of the self into the greater collective whole.”
- Joshua Michael Schrei
“It is the aim of ritual to experience the melting of the self into the greater collective whole.”
- Joshua Michael Schrei
We invite you to go into states of devotional trance with us.
A lucid dream gone wild - on the majestic lands of
Nikkilä temple, finland.
We invite you to go into states of devotional trance with us.
A lucid dream gone wild - on the majestic lands of
Nikkilä temple, finland.
THE VENUE:
Nikkilä Temple is a living temple and a greenhouse for souls.
It is dedicated to humanity’s Soul Initiation, the path of Freedom and Love, and recognising Spirit at the core of all.
We will have exclusive use of the property which is private, full of wildlife, lakefront with optional nude swimming and sunbathing, use of wood sauna, bonfire area, ceremonial fire alter, and has a large birch and spruce forest on 18 acres/ 56 hectares of activated land.
I AM READY.
what you can expect:
(like all our initiations, this journey will be guided intuitively, meaning there is no fixed curriculum)
*Working with medicinal herbs, plants, teas & elixirs
*ritual photo shoot with Jaqueline Louan
*rituals, ceremonies & sacred spaces
*dream work, intuition and divination
*Drum journeys and invoking trance states
*guided meditations, guided embodied journeys
*dance and other intuitive movement practices
*introduction to hands-on pelvic, sacral & womb work
*working with the elements and the power of Nikkilä Temple
*drum journeys, music, art, poetry and so much more....
©Jaqueline Louan
YOUR CONTRIBUTION:
(includes retreat, food, accommodation & photo shoot, does not include travel costs)
Super Early Bird - 990 EUR
(limited to 5 tickets)
Early Bird - 1090 EUR
(ends July 10)
Regular - 1200 EUR
Repeaters - 980 EUR
(for anyone who’s participated in one of our previous in-person initiations)
Single mothers, black & brown women - 850 EUR
how to get to THE temple:*
You can reach Nikkilä Temple by:
- flying into Helsinki (about 3 hours away)
- taking a ferry into Helsinki from Tallinn, or a ferry into Turku or Helsinki from Sweden
- From the airport or ferry ports you can take a train to Orivesi
Orivesi and Kangasala towns are both about a 20-minute drive one way from Nikkilä Temple.
Tampere, Finland’s 2nd largest city, is a 45-minute drive one way from Nikkilä Temple.
*The exact location will be sent to the participants once they have sent their deposit.
The initiation will be lead by Celeste González, supported by a skilled team of experienced facilitators, practiTIoNers & Artists and held by the infinite powers of Nikkilä Temple.
Space is limited to 24 women.
I AM READY.
For any questions, send an email to returnofthepriestess@gmail.com and we'll get back to you within a few days.
